In an exclusive article for The Sunday Telegraph to mark Remembrance Sunday he backs this newspaper’s “Lest We Forget” campaign to save the nation’s war memorials, and pledges to do more to improve living conditions for Services families.

The Prime Minister calls on the nation to do the fallen proud, whether they were from Britain or the Commonwealth.

He also writes of the “pull” that the First World War “still exerts on the British heart”, while setting out plans to mark the 100th anniversary of its outbreak in 2014.

“Those who fought in the trenches, at sea and in the air are still our boys – and the 100th anniversary has got to reflect that,” he writes.